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Title Author Year
True Kindness Is a Pure Divine Affinity Henry David Thoreau 1943
For a Sad Lady Dorothy Parker 1926
Men Dorothy Parker 1926
Ballade at Thirty-five Dorothy Parker 1926
[Oye! This is an apartment building ode.] Dimitri Reyes 2022
Vaccinated Jericho Brown 2021
Artless Brenda Shaughnessy 2012
The Black Finger Angelina Weld Grimké 1925
Like, Comma, Like Kay Gabriel 2020
Soy Boricua Giannina Braschi 2011
Brass Spittoons Langston Hughes 1922
Joy Robinson Jeffers 1935
Dejection: An Ode Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1802
Bones Carl Sandburg 1920
When I Am Asked Lisel Mueller 1996
Thai Massage Sasha Pimentel 2017
Kal Fatimah Asghar 2018
Prayer to Be Still and Know Nickole Brown 2019
Pontoosuce Herman Melville 2019
O’ Noblesse O’ Nikky Finney 2019

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